There's an Unbearable Chemical Smell Hovering Over Parts of Houston, and Experts Are Worried.

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15. People were shitting bricks about Fukushima...

... but there was certainly stuff just as bad with a half-life of forever that was largely ignored because it didn't make a Geiger counter tick.

I remember bad old days when self serve cheap gasoline reeked of carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons. Whatever shit byproduct the oil refineries had to get rid of was mixed with butane and sold as gasoline.

I splashed a bit of this gasoline on my hands a few times filling up the Volkswagen van on my way to protest San Onofre, Diablo Canyon, Humboldt, etc., and it's possible it did more damage to me than the nuclear power plants we were protesting.